Dougie Donnelly

Dougie Donnelly Television Sports Presenter & After Dinner Speaker  

Dougie was one of BBC Sports top television presenters, regularly seen fronting a variety of network sport productions, including Britain’s premier sport programme ‘GRANDSTAND’. He was the commentator on the Curling at the Winter Olympics and covered the dramatic moments when Great Britain won the Gold medal.  He left the BBC in 2010, having worked for then for just over 32 years.

Until recently Dougie covered the European Tour plus a number of Global events from the USA, Australia, The Middle East and South Africa. He has interviewed all the World’s top players including Tiger Woods, Nick Price, Colin Montgomery, Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman at The Masters, The Volvo PGA, The Loch Lomond World Invitational Tournament, The Open, The World Match Play and The Ryder Cup.

Dougie had been the main presenter and anchorman of BBC Scotland’s sport output, a position he had held since 1980, fronting ‘Sportscene’ (BBC Scotland’s opt out from ‘Match of the Day’ and ‘Sportsnight’) with its main sports of football and rugby. He has also produced, wrote and presented a variety of sell through videos for sporting personalities including Gavin Hastings and Ally McCoist.

In 1992 Dougie presented and reported with the award-winning BBC Network team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the European Championships from Sweden and in 1997, Dougie fronted the BBC’s presentation of The World Curling Championship from Switzerland.

While Dougie established himself as a sports presenter his skills as a chat show host were much praised when he fronted two series of ‘Friday Night with Dougie Donnelly’ and a one-off television special with Billy Connolly, ‘Connolly with Donnelly’ both for BBC Scotland. From 1979 to 1992 he presented Radio Clyde’s mid-morning show, the station’s most listened to midweek programme, leaving to concentrate on television presentation.

Dougie is at home presenting promotional events, sales conferences and corporate videos and is in constant demand for after dinner speaking. Among the companies that have engaged Dougie are CGU, Scottish Sports Council, Ford Motor Co, Distillers Plc, Barratt Homes, Scottish Power, Pannell Kerr Forster, British Midlands, Bank of Scotland, BAA to name a few. Away from broadcasting Dougie remains a sport enthusiast and is a keen golfer.